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| タイトル | An Antifungal with a Novel Mechanism of Action Discovered via Resistance Gene-Guided Genome Mining. |
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| ジャーナル・号・ページ | ACS Cent Sci, Vol. 12, Issue 2, Page 197-207, Year 2026 |
| 掲載日 | 2026年2月25日 |
著者 | Bruno Perlatti / Sandeep Vellanki / Yalong Zhang / Yi-Ming Chiang / Yingxia Hu / Mengdi Yuan / Kyle Dunbar / Abigail Fine / Michelle F Grau / Sheena Li / Timothy O'Donnell / Rajani Shenoy / Hongtao Li / Hui Shi / Xia Xu / Zeyu Chen / Tara Arvedson / Yi Tang / Robert A Cramer / Victor Cee / Colin J B Harvey / ![]() |
| PubMed 要旨 | Invasive fungal infections claim over two million lives annually, a problem exacerbated by rising resistance to current antifungal treatments and an increasing population of immunocompromised ...Invasive fungal infections claim over two million lives annually, a problem exacerbated by rising resistance to current antifungal treatments and an increasing population of immunocompromised individuals. Despite this, antifungal drug development has stagnated, with few novel agents and fewer novel targets explored in recent decades. Here, we validate acetolactate synthase (ALS), an enzyme critical for branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis and absent in humans, as a promising target for new therapeutics. Using resistance gene-guided genome mining, we discovered a biosynthetic gene cluster in encoding HB-35018 (1), a novel spiro-cis-decalin tetramic acid that potently inhibits ALS. Biochemical and antifungal assays demonstrate that surpasses existing ALS inhibitors in efficacy against and other pathogenic fungi. Structural studies via cryo-electron microscopy reveal a unique covalent binding interaction between compound and ALS, distinct from known inhibitors, and finally, we demonstrate that ALS is essential for virulence in a mouse model of invasive aspergillosis. These findings position ALS as a promising target for antifungal development and demonstrate the potential of resistance gene-guided genome mining for antifungal discovery. |
リンク | ACS Cent Sci / PubMed:41768770 / PubMed Central |
| 手法 | EM (単粒子) |
| 解像度 | 2.36 - 2.76 Å |
| 構造データ | EMDB-73040: cryoEM map of Apo Aspergillus fumigatus acetolactate synthase (ALS) EMDB-73041, PDB-9yk0: |
| 化合物 | ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-TPP: ![]() ChemComp-FAD: ![]() PDB-1cxh: |
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キーワード | PLANT PROTEIN / Branched-Chain Amino Acid Synthesis / antifungal target / herbicide target / anti fugal infection / natural product |
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